Monday Motivation - "Did you race over the weekend?"

When I do the best I can with what I have, then I have won my race.


                                 Jay Foonberg, 72-year-old runner

Monday Motivation - "TRIumph"

 “If you can’t excel with talent,
      TRIumph with effort"          

                                                                                                  Dave Weinbaum



Monday Motivation - "The Body Can Achieve!"

What the mind can conceive and believe,

the body can achieve!

Monday Motivation - "What are your Expectations?"

"Nobody succeeds beyond
his or her wildest expectations
unless he or she begins with some

Wild Expectations."
                           Raplh Charell

Train hard and dare to DREAM!

Monday Motivation - "No Excuses"

"You are never too old
to set another goal
or dream a new dream!"
Les Brown

At 80, The "Iron Nun", Sister Madonna, prepares for her next Triathlon.

Monday Motivation - "What we do is absolutely nuts..."

"What we do is absolutely nuts,
But that's the drug,
That's what brings us to Ironman racing"

                    Chris (MACCA) McCormack
                    2010 Ironman World Champion

Monday Motivation - "Being an Athlete"

Being an "Athlete" is a state of mind
which is not bound by age,
performance, or place in the running pack.

             Jeff Galloway - Coach to over 200,000 runners and walkers
                        Founder of the Galloway Marathon Training Program

                                                                           

Monday Motivation - Victors' Shared words "Help Release A Dream In Someone Else"

You will be hard press to find any other sport like multisport,  where it is commonplace for athletes to help their opponent. From Pro to newbie we all race as one big family of athletes striving to reach our best!

That multisport mindset shines in these words
by Victor Bernie Fuller of PA, runner and Army fitness trainer.

"There is no greater legacy
than to help someone else win"
                                   Joel Osteen
             

As a fitness trainer in the Army

I always believed

that my legacy will be

that I not only helped you to win,

but in winning is finishing,

and feeling good about yourself.

                                 

Use your talent, your influence

and your experience,

not just to accomplish your goals,

but to help release a dream in someone else.

Remember, there is nothing more rewarding

than to lay down at night knowing

that you helped someone else become better.

                          

Monday Motivation - Victors' Shared Words - "I would never have worked so hard"

" If I was given the things I wanted,
 I would never have worked so hard
to get the things I need...
Sometimes No can be a blessing."

Victor Jennifer Jasper Parker - Triathlete, Race Director, and Mom

Monday Motivation - I Race... to Beat Myself.

  "When I go out and race, I'm not trying to beat opponents, I'm trying to beat what I have done ... to beat myself, basically. People find that hard to believe because we've had such a bias to always strive to win things.
  If you win something and you haven't put everything into it, you haven't actually achieved anything at all. When you've had to work hard for something and you've got the best you can out of yourself on that given day, that's where you get satisfaction from."


Ian Thorpe

Monday Motivation - "The Courage to Risk Failure"

"It takes faith and the courage to risk failure
in order to realize one's destiny.
Having had my share of failures
throughout my career I know
that it is well worth the risk."

                 Ryan Hall, American Half Marathon Record Holder
 
 

Monday Motivation - Victors' Shared Words - "In The Heat of Competition"

Victor Kate Morse, Triathlete and Mom from Washington, DC shares one of her favorite quotes...

"In the heat of competition it’s easy to get stuck
on what is not going well,
which causes you to lose sight of how lucky
you are to be able to race.

In the big picture of life, your finish time
or place will have little bearing
on the sun rising or the seasons changing...
Find that place within yourself
that is grateful to be alive
and fit enough to even consider
undertaking a triathlon.” 

      Mark Allen - Six Time Ironman World Champion

Follow Victor Kates' journey at "Strike Out MS with Kate"

Monday Motivation - "If I quit, however, ..." Victory is Finishing!

   Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or a hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place.
   If I quit, however, it last forever.
                                          Lance Armstrong